Non-refillable bottle



v Patented Nov. 29, I898. A. TBUDEAU.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Jan. 28, 1898.\

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ADELARD TRUDEAU, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 615,001, dated November 29, 1898.

Application filed January 28, 1898- Serial No. 668,276- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADELARD TRUDEAU, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovement in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which is a view in longitudinal central section of a bottle-neck containing and embodying said improvement.

The object of the improvement is, as denoted by its title, the production of a device which shall prevent the refilling of a bottle with liquid contents after its original contents have been drawn out.

In the accompanying drawing the letter o denotes the bottle-neck, and b a casing of some suitable material, preferably aluminium, made fast therein-as, for instance, by means of peripheral spurs b, molded into the bottle-neck. The casing may well be made in two longitudinal halves, afterward suitably joined together.

The letter 0 denotes a part of a diaphragm integral with the casing, extending part way across the bottle=neck, wherefore it is called herein a parti diaphragm. The letter oldenotes a similar parti-diaphragm integral with the material of the casing, at the lower end thereof, and, like its congener 0, extending part Way across the opening of the bottleneck. The letters e and f respectively denote other parti-diaphragms located on the opposite side of the bottle-neck fromc and d and also extending partly across the bottle-neck. The two parti-diaphragms c d and the other pair 6 f overlap or pass each other, so as to prevent access to the valve soon to be mentioned. The parti-diaphragms e f are joined together by the skirt g.

The letter h denotes a valve filling the opening between the parti-diaphragm d and the opposite side of the casing. The lettert denotes a spring tending to hold this valve to its seat; but it is made so extremely light and delicate that a very little outward pressure will open it. The valve It has an ap purtenant pintle t, playing in the parti-dia= phragm f. Its upper end is furnished with an eye. At the first and before the bottle is filled a very fine wire is rove through this eye, with the two ends passing through a very fine hole in diaphragm e and up out of the mouth of the bottle. Their purpose is to permit the valve to be raised for the original filling of the bottle. After that filling is accomplished the operator lets go of one end of the wire and by the other pulls it out and re moves it.

The manner of using this improvement has been pretty fully indicated by the foregoing description. The spring tends to keep the valve always closed. That valve may be opened for the original filling of the bottle by the use of the wire rove through the eye of the valve-pintle, as already described, the wire being then removed. When there is liquid in the bottle, its weight will readily open the valve when the bottle is reversed, so as to flow out at the neck; but the spring will keep the valve closed at other times. The overlapping of the diaphragms, as already described, prevents any one from getting at the valve to open it for refilling purposes.

I claim as my improvement In combination, the bottle-neck, the casing made fast in the bottle-neck, the two partidiaphragms respectively located at the ends of the casing and on the same side of the bottle-neck opening, the two parti-diaphragms located on the opposite side of the neck-open ing and midway of the two parti-diaphragms at the ends of casing, the valve located un derneath the two midway parti-diaphragms, and the spring appurtenant to said valve, all substantially as described and for the pur poses set forth.

ADELARD TRUDEAU.

WVitnesses:

W. E. SIMoNDs, FLORENCE M. BRAGG. 

